I've recently been made aware of how they've banned fans taking video at their shows....I don't know how I feel about that. The phones at concerts do get a little annoying but a sweeping ban on video seems very Draconian.

I didn't know about that but good on them for doing so. People need to actually watch the show and remember it not try to annoying take a video or pic every f***in minute. Enjoy and experience what is happening in front of you and not worry about how many likes you'll get if you post something useless on your social media.

Danzig has been doing this for a while now. It doesn't affect his concert attendance at all and it makes for a great, old school concert vibe where people are actually paying attention to the show. Imagine that, enjoying what's right there in front of you.

I wonder that if the concept of head-mounted optical displays were to be revisited and made more efficient, reliable, and affordable.....the phones at concerts issue would be resolved, as they wouldn't be needed anymore.

I've recently been made aware of how they've banned fans taking video at their shows....I don't know how I feel about that. The phones at concerts do get a little annoying but a sweeping ban on video seems very Draconian.

That was just for The Astonishing Tour because they decided they wanted it presented a certain way putting the focus on the music and didn't want the phones to distract from the show. I didn't bother with the last nostalgia tour, but I've read there wasn't any specific ban at that point.

From what I've heard the last tour had a pretty mixed response. I&W is an incredibly hard album to sing which is why they probably pulled most of that album minus PME and Metropolis out of their standard song rotation. As such they tuned the entire album + ACOS down a half step for James but even then he had a hard time singing it, especially on stuff like Take The Time. The first set looked glorious. Dark Eternal Night, Breaking All Illusions, The Bigger Picture, that's just awesome.

Looking forward to the new album next year. The Astonishing isn't everyone's cup of tea and it certainly wasn't mine. Since around Train of Thought they've been putting out a great album about every-other-album.

ToT - mixed bag
Octavarium - I personally love it but it's not everyone's favorite
Systematic Chaos - very mixed bag, pretty low for me
BCSL - one of my all time favorites
ADTOE - mixed bag, hurts that they tried to rewrite I&W
Self titled - another one of my all time favorites
Astonishing - not for me

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Posted 13 January 2018 - 02:37 PM

After about a year and a half of being a DT fan, I finally had the chance to see them at the Fox Theater in Oakland on October 25th. I made a post about the concert in the concert reviews thread but I'll give my thoughts here since this is THE Dream Theater thread for TRF. Anyways, I made myself a note to not do a bunch of filming, I fell somewhat into that trap. However, I filmed small sections (no more than a minute long) of songs which were about 7 or so. I had second row seats more towards where John Myung was. Crowd wise, I believe the venue was packed and maybe even a sold out show. There were a lot of people sitting which I was a bit irritated by since I was expecting everybody to be standing. Overall, it was the best show I'd ever been to and I will plan on seeing them again on their next album's tour.

Awake is currently my primary reason for still caring about DT. So glad I finally listened to this.

Wait, you haven't heard Scenes From A Memory yet? You listened to Octavarium and Dramatic Turn first? Seriously?

I once heard a radio station list a top ten prog rock albums of all time, and ADTOE and 2112 were the top two (this was like, 2012 or so), so I obviously had to check out who was giving Rush a run for their money and the album they claimed was so good. Nowadays I know that was probably just because ADTOE had just come out, but nevertheless that's the first one I checked out. Then I got Images And Words after reading that it was actually their best album, then I figured I could go whichever way I pleased so I looked into Octavarium and a live concert where they played the whole 6DOIT suite. Between then and now I had the s/t and Scenes checked out from my library, but I didn't listen to them very well or very much and I don't remember them much now. I've also listened to the first disc of TA once, but I didn't have the stamina at the time to continue onto the second disc.

So then, after hearing Octavarium again, and remembering what I do love about DT, my dad and I got Awake, and suddenly DT started mattering to me again. So Scenes is probably next.